The Dork Forest

Dork on Dork Dialog with Jackie Kashian. I am interested in whatever dorky thing you want to talk about. Guests speak to their love of books, TV, Movies, Comic books, websites, food, wrestling, cars, action figures and bees. There is room for all in The Dork Forest. This is a safe space.
Credits:
Music composed and performed by Mike Ruekberg (Sarah Cohen on intro)
Audio fixes by Patrick Brady
Website design by Vilmos

Craig Shoemaker is the “lovemaster” … we don’t talk about it. He’s got a great podcast called Laughing it Off. We talk about his dream sequence of being on Hollywood Squares with Paul Lynn – which leads to tales of his dad and then it’s ALL Wizard of Oz. All the time. It’s GREAT. Enjoy.

Remember: December is “do not donate” months. Donate to a foodbank or the Hurricane relief or someone else. January… donate to me. $100 each for the year would be great. Heh.

Julie Hoverson makes fabulous audio dramas. She writes, directs, produces and performs in three ongoing series. She knows her old timey radio, Lovecraft and the writing craft. LARPing is discussed and I try to keep up. It’s great, tune the hell in.

Remember: November and December are “do not donate” months. Donate to a foodbank or the Hurricane relief or someone else. January… donate to me. $100 would be great. Just saying.You CAN order US made TDF shirts and comedy (also US made) for the holidays if you have dorky loved ones.

Guy Branumis a funny, funny comic and writer. You might have seen him on Chelsea Lately a lot; and he worked at G4. He's a great comic. He also knows some seriously obscure facts aboutCanada. Probably not obscure if you're Canadian. It’s excellent. Enjoy.

ALSO: Nov/Dec are “do not donate” months. Donate to a foodbank or the Hurricane relief or someone else. January… donate to me. $100 each for the year would be great.

Solange (@solangecb on twitter) is a stand up comic and loves to DANCE! We talk Salsa! The dance of her people, or someone’s people. She loves it, it sounds like I should love it. I want to love it. It seems exhausting. But in suede shoes.

ALSO: Nov/Dec are “do not donate” months. Donate to a foodbank or the Hurricane relief or someone else. January… donate to me. $100 each for the year would be great.

I did a LIVE show in Portland with Chelsea Cain at a Comedy Festival there. It’s a bit buzzy because of the mystery of me taping live. Sigh. Patrick Brady is not to be judged. But the show is so great. I can’t stop talking initially but, Chelsea Cain, famous author, is a Dungeons and Dragon Dork. IRL, she is the author of five best selling NYT thrillers described by the NY Times as, "steamy and perverse," which is being made into an FX series. She also wrote Confessions of a Teen Sleuth, a Nancy Drew parody. I read that. She’s smart, hilarious and, get this, a HUGE Dungeons and Dragons dork. It’s a good one. With stand up comedy, closing the show, from Barbara Holm

Paul Adelstein (STINE) and Murray Valeriano (VaLARiano) join me at the LaPodFest to talk about Music. I think we know what happens when music is introduced into the plot. Shots. I laughed my head off. Enjoy.

Lindy West and Ahamefyle Oluo are writers, comics, musicians from Seattle. I love their works. Aham thought he was coming over to “audit” the show in my living room. Oh no. Yer in the house, you’re on the show. And… It was Wynton Marsalis I saw live play jazz or trumpet. I stayed awake the whole time and thought, “I experiencing jazz. This is important. Keep it together, Kashian.” They are altogether adorable and it’s great. Enjoy.

Jake Kroeger enjoys origami. A lot. And he’s the creator of an LA based comedy blog called The Comedy Bureau, which I use a lot to find out shows to watch, be on and open mikes to do. We weed off from art to comedy to beer. And then we find out that Jake should never travel with his family again. He’s making world wide fans at one point. I find it hilarious. Enjoy.

Joel Hodgson talks Minneapolis in the 1980’s and then it’s VENTRILOQUISM! Yes… puppet talk! Then monster talk. We skype. And we all learn, by the end of this great episode, why I like it when we’re in the same room. But it’s really cool. Enjoy.

Dave Hill is a multilfaceted dork diamond. He's a greatcomic, storyteller,musicianand ... and... well, more will be revealed. So I won't limit him with faint praise. Oh, and he has his ownpodcast which you will enjoy. We talk music, guitars and comedy and people and life. It is shown again how little pot I smoked in High School by what I don't know about Led Zepplin. Enjoy. I did.

Bonus Content: Punchy Andy and I discuss electric guitars and there's a picture of me and Dave as background to the TDF app playing. In poloroid form cuz I figured out how to do that in Picasa. Wow. It was easy. Figured out might be bragging.

Steve Mandel is @negativsteve on Twitter. His dork cred goes back to the conference call days of TDF. He’s on the podcasts Nerd Rage and Comic Book Insider and he collects art and stories regarding the lameness that is Aquaman. (Steve notes that Aquaman in the new 52 is actually good). We talk Heroclix and I laugh. Enjoy.

Kristyn Burtt loves the Olympics! She’s going into withdrawal. She also gets to meet a lot of famous folk because she works the red carpet interviewing people. I know nothing… enjoy that. I let her in on a LOT of the minutia of my life. Kristyn is fantastic. Listen UP.

Abbey Londer is the creator of a brand new comedy festival @riotla which will happen in Sept 2012 and is a HOROSCOPE DORK. Yay. We also have similar “father issues.” Her dad stories are Amazing. Love it. I did.

Josh Weinstein (of Freaks and Geeks and MST3K) discusses how he has to use CONSTANT VIGILENCE against being consumed by any dorkdom. So he goes from tree to tree, in the dork forest, looking for the perfect balance of joy before obsession. There’s a part of me that wants to encourage him to lose control. He cooks, he reads, he’s in a band, collects musical instruments, he’s making a documentary. It’s fascinating. Enjoy.

Bill Willingham writes one of my favorite ongoing comic stories (Fables). I’m Live at CONvergence in Minneapolis (Poster by StrawberryLuna is this week’s image). Again, I’m excited enough for the both of us. I weed off a LOT and keep asking him if he’s seen random movies. I’m told there’s a way to interview people at conventions. I did not know that. But he rolls with my weirdo questions. Enjoy.

Lois McMaster Bujold (facebook) is one of my favorite sci-fi/fantasy authors. I’m more excited than both of us. I’m excited enough for both of us. We’re at the Minneapolis CONvergence in my hotel room. Enjoy the occasional sound of the air conditioning unit. I had a blast. I hope you do. Enjoy!

Michelle McNamara is a true crime dork. More than that… she’s a true crime… expert. She has a website full of investigation, speculation and information. It’s great. And… much like her last episode, we learn that there are a lot of killers I’ve never heard of, and I keep clarifying things that EVERYONE apparently knows already. This was recorded June 21st, 2012 so Sandusky is discussed. It’s a great one. Fire it up.

I started stand up comedy with Steve Marmel. He’s writing on The Family Guy, he was in on the ground floor of Fairly Oddparents… he’s a political, animation and comic book dork. We go at it at LENGTH. You will enjoy!!

I’ve known Dylan Brody for … ever. He’s a wonderful man and I get a bit snarky with him. He’s a storyteller and comic and writer and I am SO not the hero of this show. This is the last episode I taped before I took a hiatus. So I regret the lack of total support I show for Dylan on this show… but it’s got the draw of hearing me as a dorky jackass. He’s great. See him LIVE in New Orleans later this month.